Maybe you need to do a better job looking for value? Look for whats on sale? Change up a brand or two? Maybe Walmart is not the end all be all for chocolate cake? If .80 a lb increase in beef is wrecking your bank account youre doing something wrong. Very savvy of you to choose the two commodities that the media focuses on daily for your 2 examples…. Beef and cocoa? Now do eggs….or milk….. or rent. Cmon man.
3 percent is 3 percent….
LOL I have shopped around Wal Mart is the cheapest...eggs are still high as I deal in eggs and sell them, granted they have dropped some but was not a month ago 5 dozen eggs were selling for at the peak were $21 at WM and Krogers was higher than that ,milk I do not buy as I have milk producers in the pasture at home, same with eggs...